Your Journey, Your PaceTake a Self-Guided Bike Tour
Do you want to immerse yourself in our enlightening and educational two-wheel treks…virtually? Wheelhouse Detroit’s new self-guided tours are only a download away.
Using the TOTAGO app,
you can download our rides.
Each download includes a detailed route map, and, at each stop, one of our guides will “join” you with an informative video narrative that will bring the very spot at which you are standing to life.
Available Self-Guided Tours
*Please note that all self-guided tours start at the Detroit Riverfront
AUTO HERITAGE
Discover how Detroit became the center of the automotive industry on this tour.
The tour takes in the Globe Building, Dequindre Cut, Packard Plant, the GM Detroit-Hamtramck (Poletown) Assembly Plant, Milwaukee Junction with a stop at the Piquette Plant, New Center (old GM Headquarters and Fisher Building) and TechTown, where you will learn how industry is evolving with advanced technology.
On the return trip, you will pass the Michigan Theatre, the location of Ford’s original workshop, the Bagley Garage.
Your video tour guide, Mike Darga, will wow you with his depth of knowledge at each of the 11 stops on the 12-mile route.
corktown
Get inside info on the oldest neighborhood in Detroit. Check out Victorian homes, historic churches and buildings, vibrant and dynamic businesses and urban farms. Stops include Most Holy Trinity, North Corktown and several of its community gardens and urban farms, the West Riverfront, the site of Tiger Stadium, Michigan Central Station, and Roosevelt Park.
Discussion centers on historic demographic changes, urban renewal and the impact, good and bad, of current development in the community. Wheelhouse owner Kelli Kavanaugh will be your virtual tour guide. She lived in Corktown for 19 years, wrote the book "Detroit’s Michigan Central Station," and previously worked for the Corktown Citizens District Council and Greater Corktown Development Corp.
At one of the stops, several local food and drink establishments will be pointed out, so we encourage you to plan to spend some time at one or more of them!
The tour route is approximately 9 miles and features 7 stops.
BONUS rideTHE DETROIT UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Are you looking for more virtual bike ride options? The Detroit Greenways Coalition has published a free self-guided 14-mile Underground Railroad Bicycle Tour available to use with RideWithGPS. It doesn’t include a video tour guide, but you can follow the route and read information about each stop on your phone.
Find your bonus ride HERE.
COMING SOON
Haunted Detroit
Public Art
Belle Isle
Historic Religious Sites
Music Heritage
Prohibition
Breweries